Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

Erythrura prasina

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsForestDomed nestTiny · 14 g

When to see the Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in China, Brunei.

About the Pin-tailed Parrotfinch

The pin-tailed parrotfinch is a common species of estrildid finch found in Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and China. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2.

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